Alex Clare

Alexander George Clare was born in Southwark, London and grew up listening to his father's music. "I spent a lot of time with my dad listening to jazz records and going to jazz concerts," he told Spinner. "For an English person, I think I have a weird vocal tone because I learned to sing through blues and soul records."

Alex attended Westminster Kingsway College, where he studied to be a chef taking a NVQ in catering. The celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Ainsley Harriott and Antony Worrall Thompson are all notable alumni as are the musicians Eliza Doolittle, Jah Wobble and the late Sid Vicious.

Alex took up the trumpet and drums as a youngster. As he grew older he graduated to guitar-based songwriting, playing gigs with original material under the stage name of Alexander G. Muertos. He adopted his current moniker, Alex Clare, in 2010.